Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

[yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com>]

2009/3/31 André Günther <Andre.G@gmx.de>:
> The only thing I personally see to make remote access on devices such as the
> iPhone an useful and enjoyable experience is to work with the multitouch
> capabilities. Thus providing an easy way for mouse chording and also certain
> gesture support for managing the screen space (like zooming, maximizing a
> certain window, scrolling etc.)
> All these things are not possible with the VNC, because VNC doesn't know
> about content, drawterm can.
>

Indeed, multitouch support in Plan9 would be *very _useful_*. Not only
iPhone like devices, but also synaptics touchpads available in most
laptops (Asus and all these new netbooks being the most obivious
example) support multitouch. Being able to use these devices as a
portable terminal without the need to carry around an extra mouse
would be great. 2 and 3 fingers gestures as a button chording
replacement looks like a natural and logical thing to me, YMMV.
3 mouse button are becoming more difficult to find every day, while
synaptics devices are the new standard input device.

OTOH, I don't really know how difficult would be to port iPhone
multitouch to synaptics touchpads, but only the user interface
research would be an advancement in this direction.

hth,


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